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Mick Ostrood
Mick Ostrood

Reputation: 5

Countdown with hours and minutes - compute the difference

I have two dates:

$today = '2012-12-01 10:40:00';
$check = '2012-12-03 12:00:00';

How can I show countdown for this dates? Should show me:

Count: 49 hours and 20 minutes. I can check only hours or only minutes with function mktime, but how can i compare this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2731

Answers (3)

Pedro Cordeiro
Pedro Cordeiro

Reputation: 2125

Assuming you want the clock to keep ticking as the user stays on the page, you don't really want to do that using PHP (unless you want to dispatch AJAX calls to the server every second to update the clock, which would suck). Do it client-side, using javascript.

Here are 25 pretty scripts that do that using jQuery: http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2012/11/jquery-countdown-scripts.html

Upvotes: 1

John Conde
John Conde

Reputation: 219794

try using DateTime::diff

<?php
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2012-12-01 10:40:00');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2012-12-03 12:00:00');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%1 day %h hours %i minutes');
?>

Upvotes: 4

Evert
Evert

Reputation: 99505

You can change these dates to a unix timestamp with strtotime. Then you can calculate the difference between them in seconds.

60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour.

Upvotes: 2

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